Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling Candies Are Worth Trying!

The Good: Good flavor, Good ingredients, Decent balance between chocolate and mint flavors
The Bad: Dark chocolate could be a bit darker for my tastes
The Basics: Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolate candies are good, but not quite the epitome of dark chocolate flavor, even though the mint flavor balances nicely with the chocolate well.


I am a sucker for trying anything that is chocolate mint, though I manage to retain a sense of objectivity and professionalism when I try new things. My favorite chocolate mint products are dark chocolate mint and when there is something new to the market, I eagerly try it. The latest mass-produced chocolate to get my attention for being dark chocolate and mint are the Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling candies. The Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling are a decently-priced mint chocolate candy that manages to find the right balance between mass-produced chocolate and premium chocolate product.

Basics

Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolate candies are a mini-bar that is made up of two connected squares. The full piece of candy is two inches long, one inch wide and one-half inch thick. Each of the bars comes individually wrapped in a green and eggplant colored wrapper with gold foil text. It is worth noting that while I usually rail against the environmental impact of such things, it is hard to imagine these Cadbury chocolate candies not wrapped. This keeps each one clean, unmelted and intact.

Each connected pair of chocolate squares is a pair of seamless squares that is essentially a chocolate envelope sealing in a white mint-flavored paste. In this form, the 5.5 oz. bag, the individually-wrapped chocolate candy are packaged together in a thick foil paper bag. This size has approximately ten candies and the thick foil paper bag does little to protect the candy. The bag is not resealable, though this matters very little considering that the chocolate candy do not go bad as they are individually wrapped.

One of these bags, even with only ten squares, tends to run in the $5.00 range. These are not entirely inexpensive candies!

Ease Of Preparation

These are candy, so preparing them is as simple as opening the bag and then opening one of the plastic wrappers around the actual chocolates one wishes to eat. There is no grand secret to eating Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolate candy. With these having a seam between the two domes, it is easy to consume far less than the full, recommended, serving at any given time.

Taste

There is a very mild minty aroma to each Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling, even when they have not been broken open. The Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling smells appropriately muted by the dark chocolate, though there is nothing distinctively "chocolate" in the bouquet.

The Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling candies are very sweet and slightly dry. As the dark chocolate, which is fairly satisfying to anyone who loves dark chocolate, melts away, the minty center explodes with flavor. The cool peppermint flavor of the Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling manages to find a great balance with the sweet, slightly dry dark chocolate that coats it. There is nothing waxy in the chocolate flavor of the Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling candies, so this tastes like a decent higher-quality candy than most would expect.

The Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling candies leave a slightly dry, powerfully sweet aftertaste in the mouth that endures for about five minutes after the last chocolate is consumed.

Nutrition

The Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolates are candy, so it is tough to look at these for something nutritious and then blame them for not being healthy. Cadbury chocolate candies are made of pretty decent ingredients, though. The primary ingredients are semi-sweet chocolate, sugar, and palm kernel oil. Still, there is nothing unpronounable in these candies and there are minimal preservaties, everything in these could be readily identified by me.

A serving of the Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolate candy is considered three pieces. From three pieces, one takes in 220 calories, 120 of those calories being from fat. There is virtually no cholesterol (less than 5 mg in a full serving), incredibly little sodium (25 mg of Sodium - 1% RDA), and there are no vitamins in these chocolate candy. There is, surprisingly enough, 10% of one's daily iron and 2% of their daily calcium in three pieces, so that is nice.

Honestly, these are candy and anyone looking to them for actual nutrition needs to get a reality check. These are not Vegan-compliant, nor are they recommended for anyone with a nut allergy as they are produced on the same equipment that peanuts and almonds pass over. These are not marked as kosher.

Storage/Clean-up

The bags of these Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolate candy remain fresh for quite some time. The bag of Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling chocolates we picked up two months ago had an expiration date of August 2, 2017, so they do not have the longest shelf life in the world. Given that these are chocolate, one assumes that if they are kept in a cool, dry environment they will not melt or go bad. Given that they are individually wrapped in a very sealed package, it is hard to imagine just what it would take for these to go bad outside melting and refreezing.

As for cleanup, I applaud those who actually throw the wrappers away in socially appropriate places, as opposed to litter. Outside that, there is no real cleanup needed, unless one is eating them in a hot environment. In that case, it is likely one would need to wash their hands. If these chocolate candy melt into most fabrics, they will stain. Getting them to melt, though, is quite a task; these are a decent dark chocolate candy.

Overall

Cadbury Royal Dark Creamy Mint Dark Chocolate With Creamy Mint Filling candies are pretty wonderful, even if they are not the most dry and chocolatey flavored chocolate mint candies.

For other candy reviews, please check out my reviews of:
Chuao Chocolatier Maple Bacon Bar
Lindt Lindor Dark Peppermint Lindor truffles
Dolfin Dark Chocolate With Mint Leaves Chocolate Bar

8.5/10

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